[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”5″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=”yes” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ align_mobile=”align_left_mobile” mobile_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1/1″ column_width_pixel=”600″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ text_size=”h1″]Erdan pushing for UN adoption of IHRA definition of antisemitism[/vc_custom_heading][easy-social-share buttons=”facebook,twitter,linkedin,buffer,love,pocket” counters=”1″ counter_pos=”insidebeforename” total_counter_pos=”leftbig” style=”icon” template=”6″ nospace=”yes” fullwidth=”yes”][vc_column_text]
UN antisemitism envoy Miguel Moratinos and Israeli Ambassador to the UN
have agreed to work together to push for the United Nations to adopt a formal definition of antisemitism, Erdan said on Monday.
Erdan and Moratinos have met several times, and on Friday, they agreed to work together on promoting a definition of antisemitism. Erdan is pushing for it to be the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition.
Thirty countries have already adopted the IHRA working definition of
, drafted in 2016, which states: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
Moratinos is expected to meet with major Jewish organizations in New York this week to further delve into the matter.
Erdan said that “rising antisemitism around the world requires us to act with additional tools and increase cooperation with the international community to create enforcement tools against expressions of antisemitic hatred.
“The UN’s adoption of an official definition could reduce some of the incitement against Israel in the UN that some member states have grown accustomed to, and could grant all UN bodies the ability to better fight antisemitism,” the ambassador added.
The IHRA definition is not legally binding, and is meant to be a tool for countries to identify hatred and discrimination against Jews.
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However, some anti-Israel and far-Left Jewish groups have come out against the definition, because the list of examples of antisemitism include "targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity."
"Criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic," the full definition explains.
Some of the examples of antisemitism on the list include "denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor" and "applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation," as well as "drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis."
The Progressive Israel Network, which includes Americans for Peace Now, J Street, New Israel Fund and other groups, said earlier this year that they oppose the legal adoption of the IHRA definition, arguing that it could be "misused and exploited to instead suppress legitimate free speech, criticism of Israeli government actions, and advocacy for Palestinian rights.”
In March, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote that the Biden administration "enthusiastically embraces" the IHRA definition.
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